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Recent Writing Roundup

Few things: 1. Dems own healthcare whether they like it or not . 2. Clive Crook, folks, a guy who writes polls about what things are popular without looking at any polls or talking to anyone . 3. What centrists miss about inequality: it's a central part  of our case for why  we don't have job growth anymore, not a main goal in and of itself . 4. The quiet elite conspiracy to keep austerity policies going, despite the fact that the intellectual case for them has totally collapsed . 5. Four examples of horrible top-down class warfare . 6. Elizabeth Warren's new bill is good, but the fact that is big time news in Washington is telling . 7. The GOP's Great Depression agenda . I had a particularly rich couple days in there (for me anyway), so I hope you enjoy these.

Filmed

Spent some time today putting plastic film around most of the windows frames in my house. It's an interesting example of a low cost insulation improvement when one's house is very old and leaks like a sieve. Picture is from my new phone, which is a Nexus 5.

Brief, Long Overdue Update

Argh, sorry this place has been dead for so long. It's been one of those situations where you need to do something, but the very lateness of it makes it harder to approach for some reason. However, I've cleared the decks somewhat, and I've decided I'm going back to short little posts here if I can't think of anything else. So, for starters, until I can fill y'all in on the whole story, here's my latest for the Washington Post: Where's the Republican anti-poverty agenda ? Spoiler alert: they have one, it involves giving less money to the poor.

Grand Canyon Photo Dump

One more big one, just wrapping up the last of my travels. Here's Wheeler Peak in Great Basin National Park: Here's a rock outside of Gold Butte, to which I unfortunately never made it. Here's a panorama of Hoover Dam. Dig how low Lake Mead is; it was below half when I took this picture. Here's a view of one of the massive spillways along the side. Here's the view downstream. Here's a sunset at my folks' place in Cortez, Colorado. More. On to Grand Canyon! Here's a panorama from during our hike down the Bright Angel Trail. Here's a wave in Granite Rapid. Here's the number five wave in Hermit Rapid. Here's my friend Bego running Hermit. Notice he takes a wave up top and loses an oar, but gets it back right quick: Here's Vince in Hermit. Here's my mom in Hermit. There's a passenger buried under all that spray somewhere: My friend Emily in Hermit. My friend Ala

Down the River

So, I thought these were some cool light beams: And tomorrow, I'm getting up at four in the morning to go hiking down to Phantom Ranch in Grand Canyon, where I'll hop in the boat and row Horn Creek about 500 yards later. Here's my friend Brad Dimock running it in his custom Galloway replica boat: It's been 10 years since I've rowed anything that big, so I'm a bit nervous. Might be my mom will ride with my dad for the first couple-three rapids, and can't say I blame her. Anyway, I should be back around the 2nd. Don't let anything really spectacularly bad go wrong while I'm away.

Moab Photo Dump: Highway 128, Dead Horse Point, Arches, and Canyonlands

Be warned, this is a big one. So first thing I did was drive down Highway 128, which follows the Colorado River into Moab:  I believe this is Onion Creek which was flash-flooding at the time.  Here are a couple panoramas from Dead Horse Point:  Here's Park Avenue in Arches: And Double Arch: And The Windows:  This is Delicate Arch, from across a small valley:  In perspective (the zoom on my camera is pretty good):  Then I went on a little hike into the Devil's Garden, out to Dark Angel. Here's Landscape Arch on the way:  And Navajo Arch (I think):  A couple panoramas from a high spot in Devil's Garden: Double-O Arch: From the other side: And Dark Angel. It's just like it looks, a semi-random stob of rock out by itself. It's striking how quickly the number of people falls off the further you get from the pavement. This is maybe an hour or so's brisk walking from the parki